The execution comes almost 3 months after Tony Carruther’s botched lethal injection.

Each of the three men executed on Thursday had been convicted of murder. It is the first time in more than a decade that ...

Oklahoma can move forward with its controversial lethal-injection drug, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Justice Samuel Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said prisoners who challenged the ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits behind glass windows in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed concerns about Florida's lethal injection procedure on Tuesday, urging more transparency as the ...

Lethal injection, widely used for carrying out the death penalty in the US, amounts to human experimentation, a group of researchers is claiming. Following a six-month national moratorium on the ...

Lawyers representing seven Arizona death row inmates want information about the drugs used in Florida's lethal-injection procedure, but corrections officials are asking a judge to keep the documents ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Little is known about how Indiana acquired pentobarbital, a drug that state officials have used twice for executions in the last ...

Idaho prison officials must let media witnesses at executions watch as lethal injection drugs are prepared and administered to a condemned person, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge ...

The US Supreme Court is under increasing pressure to consider halting death sentences by lethal injection after a convicted Arizona killer took two hours to die. Opponents and supporters of capital ...

Inmate Charles Warner, the second of two Oklahoma death row prisoners originally scheduled to die on April 29th, won't go to the lethal injection chamber until at least November 13th. That's thanks to ...